The Nova Stat Profile 1 analyser, a combined sodium, potassium, ionized calcium, haematocrit and conventional blood gas analyser, was evaluated over a four month period. In addition to assessing and demonstrating that the instrument met analytical requirements, an appreciation of the use of ionised calcium (iCa) was made. Prospective costs were characterised and practical problems of iCa measur...

Novel aluminised E-glass fibre reinforced unsaturated polyester composites, originally formulated for enhanced thermal and electrical shielding properties were evaluated in terms of their thermal performance. The thermal degradation of these specimens was analysed using a thermogravimetric analyser (TGA). The samples were heated from ambient temperature to 500 1C at a heating rate of 20 1C/min....

Corresponding Author: Mohammed M. Abu Shquier Department of Information Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, KSA Email: [email protected] Abstract: Arabic stemming is a technique to find the stem or lexical root for Arabic words through the process of eliminating affixes (preffixes, infixes and suffixes) attached to their roots. Several approaches have been implemented to generate the stem of A...

This paper presents a static pointer analysis technique for a subset of C. The tool supports user-defined assertions inserted in the body of the program. Assertions are of two kinds: static assertions automatically verified by the analyser, and hypothetical assertions treated as assumptions by the analyser. The technique deals with recursive data structures and it is accurate enough to handle c...

Names are difficult to handle for normal letter-to-sound rules, since these usually are designed for ordinary words. The structure of Swedish names differ from ordinary words but their multi-morphemic structure make them suitable to analyse with a morphological analyser. The paper presents the work on names from the Swedish telephone directory, as part of the ONOMASTICA project [7], including a...

This paper deals with the effective implementation of the new Czech morphological analyser ajka which is based on the algorithmic description of the Czech formal morphology. First, we present two most important word-forming processes in Czech — inflection and derivation. A brief description of the data structures used for storing morphological information as well as a discussion of the efficien...

Considering that we are observing and describing the behaviour of the terminological units and the terminological collocations, we intend to talk about the value of the verb as a nuclear element of the terminological collocation in the Portuguese language. So we will empathize the theoretical distinction between multilexemic terminological unit and terminological collocation and the importance ...

This paper deals with the treatment of constructed neologisms in a machine translation system. It focuses on a particular issue in Romance languages: relational adjectives and the role they play in prefixation. Relational adjectives are formally adjectives but are semantically linked to their base-noun. In prefixation processes, the prefix is formally attached to the adjective, but its semantic...

This paper presents the AnIta-Lemmatiser, an automatic tool to lemmatise Italian texts. It is based on a powerful morphological analyser enriched with a large lexicon and some heuristic techniques to select the most appropriate lemma among those that can be morphologically associated to an ambiguous wordform. The heuristics are essentially based on the frequency-of-use tags provided by the De M...